NOVGO.NET Chapter 737 - 725: Spirit Treasure Mechanism
Shuanghua Valley.
On a sunny hill to the north, atop a pile of scattered stones, Chen Mu appeared, holding the Law Prohibition Core Jade Plate in his left hand.
The power of the forbidden law, invisible to ordinary people, clearly floated before him.
Following the starry silk paths leading to the cave, he examined carefully, soon locking his gaze onto a crack in a nearby rock.
Before long, Earth Spirit Vital Energy spurted from that crack, spreading around Shuanghua Valley.
“This is it.”
Chen Mu nodded in satisfaction, took out the Green Needle Tea roots given by Bai Xiaoqing, and planted them next to the rock crack.
Green Needle Tea has a high demand for Earth Spirit Vital Energy; without enough vitality, it would rather die before you.
As the chubby Bai said, the Bai Family Village had to plant it in the Earth Vein Spiritual Spring to ensure its growth. That spring was the core of Earth Vein converting Heavenly Star to Earth Spirit Vital Energy, extremely rich in vitality.
“Shuanghua Valley guided the spread of Earth Spirit Vital Energy widely to plant the Four Leaf Flower. Only this crack barely counts as a gathering point for vitality.”
Patting his hands and standing up, Chen Mu glanced at the half-transparent gray stone door, checking the planting technique section.
Planting: 6945/10000/Third Rank;
This skill was honed when planting Yellow Bud Rice on Jilong Road years ago.
Sadly, after years of traveling, he occasionally planted some wild vegetables, progress slow in upgrading.
Now, planting Yellow Bud Rice is sufficient, but serving Green Needle Tea, such a high-end exotic species…
“Success would be great; failure wouldn’t be a big deal since it’s a windfall, let it be.” Chen Mu shrugged.
“The current focus still remains on the condensation of the Yellow Springs Gourd.”
“But this progress… sigh!” he couldn’t help but frown.
The Gray Wall possesses the ability to successfully archive experience points and provide feedback and guidance in the correct direction.
Yet knowing and doing are entirely different matters.
The second phase of the Spirit Treasure Talisman is even harder to condense, with continuous mishaps and collapses, the cultivation progress described as disastrous.
“It really wasn’t this hard when constructing the Daoist Foundation!” Chen Mu scratched his head.
“Never mind, I’ll practice slowly.”
“With the stone door, I’m sure I’ll succeed.”
“At worst, it’ll just be like those legends where you painstakingly hold on for decades, even a century.”
“By that time, I’d just be… just be a hundred and thirty or forty years old!” Chen Mu’s face twitched.
“What’s wrong with being a hundred and thirty or forty years old!”
“A hundred and thirty or forty years is a prime age for striving!”
“I’m not anxious! Not even a bit!” Chen Mu gritted his teeth, comforting himself.
…
Inside the Divine Communication Hall.
Chen Mu placed the Law Prohibition Core Jade Plate back on the offering table.
He was about to continue pondering over the Yellow Springs Gourd, but after a few steps, he suddenly turned and looked at the Jade Plate.
“Since the Spiritual Treasure Pivot Scripture carries the words ‘spiritual treasure’, could it be related to spiritual treasures too?!”
Chen Mu had a sudden idea.
Whether it was at the County Temple of the City God in Luandu County before or later at the Hundred Illusion Sect, he always used the secret technique to observe the restriction arrays.
He subconsciously assumed the secret technique was meant for this purpose.
But the secret technique’s opening clearly has the word ‘spiritual treasure’!
“Could it be…” Chen Mu suddenly felt his heart pounding.
…
Late night, Divine Communication Hall.
Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair with his eyes closed.
The power of the Spiritual Treasure Pivot Scripture emerged like invisible rain mist within the Jade Seed.
It penetrated into the hollow spherical Yellow Springs Gourd Talisman, slowly stringing the somewhat scattered talisman into a whole. It was like steel bars in concrete construction, or like blood vessels and nerves in a body.
The Exotic Force even gradually seeped into the River Chariot Divine Acupoint.
The eighteen-layer Divine Orifice Talisman and Spirit Treasure Talisman suddenly exuded a harmonious divine charm.
It seemed that the River Chariot Divine Acupoint was originally part of the Yellow Springs Gourd, the starting point and foundation of the spiritual treasure!
“Indeed, the Yellow Springs Gourd is entirely woven and structured from Primordial Qi.”
“As the River Chariot Divine Acupoint purifies Primordial Qi, it certainly serves as the Yellow Springs Gourd’s starting point and foundation.”
Chen Mu’s heart instantly surged with clarity.
He subconsciously visualized the Spirit Treasure Talisman Atlas, combining the guidance from the Gray Wall feedback, attempting to condense a new talisman.
He saw strands of Primordial Qi drill into the center of the Yellow Springs Gourd Talisman, then move outward using the Spirit Treasure Pivot Exotic Force as its veins.
When reaching the outermost position, borrowing the harmonious divine charm emitted by the talisman, the Primordial Qi started to grow and extend outward.
Like roots growing, like branches budding, or like a spider spinning a web, all parts of the new talisman began to slowly yet orderly condense and take shape!
An hour later.
Chen Mu rose from the rocking chair and stood with hands on hips at the hall’s entrance, looking excited.
If it wasn’t the wrong time, he would’ve wanted to laugh out loud!
“In the past, condensing a new Spirit Treasure Talisman couldn’t succeed without dozens or even a hundred attempts.”
“But this cultivation, only succeeded in weaving a new Spirit Treasure Talisman in just nine tries!”
“This…”
“The secret arts of the Netherworld, can they actually link with the inner cultivation of the Spiritual Treasure method of a Qi Cultivator?”
“A pleasant surprise!”
“A pleasant surprise indeed! Haha…”
…
Months later, in the Extreme North of the Henglian Mountain Range, snowflakes covered the mountains, leaving a vast expanse of white with no other colors in sight.
Atop a cliff, a middle-aged man suddenly flipped out from below the precipice.
As if sensing something, the blood-covered middle-aged man wore an expression of ecstasy.
Then, his whole being seemed to fade, slowly becoming transparent.
Just as he was about to disappear completely, a withered hand suddenly appeared, reaching into the void and grabbing. It clutched the middle-aged man’s neck and pulled him out of the void.
Casually tossing him afar.
Bang!
The man flew out like a meteor and crashed into the cliff, creating a deep pit in the ground.
Moments later, as the dust and rubble cleared, the figure of the middle-aged man emerged. His limbs were twisted unnaturally, and he was completely unconscious.
“At the Capital Institute, it was due to the subordinates’ negligence that this person escaped the Isolation Barrier Technique of the two realms.” At the mountain top, San Zhangli bowed with a troubled expression to apologize.
“These Yin Ghost Sect disciples have trained themselves into neither human nor ghost but do possess some skills.”
“It’s normal for someone to escape the control range of the restriction.” Luo Ding, in a good mood, waved dismissively.
“How many Nether God Blood Bags did you acquire?” he asked cheerfully.
“Three hundred attackers in total, seventeen cultivated the Celestial Capital Transformation, and including the one on the ground, all have been captured.” San Zhangli immediately replied.
“Seventeen Twelve Transformations Nether God Blood Bags, enough to produce a batch of high-grade Heart Nourishing Pills.” Luo Ding looked satisfied.
“What’s the situation with the other two traps?” he continued to inquire.
“This time we deliberately leaked the locations of three Shuanghua Rabbit farms, White Deer Mountain here and the Extreme West Three Elements Lake, successfully luring the Yin Ghost Sect men.”
“I just received a message from Bai Village saying they’ve captured quite a few at the Three Elements Lake as well.”
“But…” San Zhangli hesitated to speak.
“But?” Luo Ding raised an eyebrow.
“The Shuanghua Valley side… still hasn’t had any activity.” San Zhangli’s expression turned peculiar.
“You mean, of the three Shuanghua Rabbit farms leaked, the one closest to Kangzhou, Shuanghua Valley, had no incident?” Luo Ding looked surprised.
This…
“Was it that Daoist Soldier named Chen Mu who discovered the Lock Dragon Institute’s reconnaissance and took care of it ahead of time?” he speculated rhetorically.
“The Institute hasn’t received any request for help.” San Zhangli’s expression became more bewildered.
“Could it be that he handled those advance scouts all by himself without making a sound?”
“Hiss…”
“Isn’t this person quite a bit uncanny?” Luo Ding’s face twitched.
The series of plans over the past six months were all to use the Shuanghua Rabbit farms as bait to capture Yin Ghost Sect men.
But with this Chen Mu, problems kept cropping up one after another.
If you blame him, well, he is indeed diligently doing his duty.
Yet if you don’t blame him, he keeps thwarting the plans successively.
This…
“Perhaps because he truly is from the Outer Heaven Daoist Soldiers.” San Zhangli speculated, “He’s been dealing with Outer Heaven demons for years, his methods are uncanny, yet his actions are cautious.”
“We had him guard Shuanghua Valley, and he simply stayed put at Shuanghua Valley.”
“After all, he’s still carrying the Daoist Soldier Contract on his back.”
Luo Ding suddenly felt his teeth ache.
…
One hundred and seventy miles outside Shuanghua Valley.
“You know what to say?” Chen Mu looked expressionlessly at the stubborn young man before him.
“There’s nothing here; it definitely can’t be a Shuanghua Rabbit farm.”
“It’s certainly a rumor spread by the Holy Heart Institute, deliberately setting a trap.”
“When I return, I will definitely clarify…” The young man looked aggrieved, but his words implied a complete admission.
Tsk!
Heavenly Demon Spirit Seed is still so eerie.
Chen Mu waved to let this Great Zhou Lock Dragon Institute’s secret agent return.
He himself transformed into a streak of golden escape light, quickly returning to the Divine Communication Hall.
At this moment, a Giant Spirit Divine in armor stood at one side of the great hall, holding a Bronze Ritual Bell.
As soon as Chen Mu came in, the Giant Spirit Divine shook the bronze bell.
“Did another Lock Dragon Institute agent sneak over?”
“Can’t the lower courtyards and mountain villages receiving the Shuanghua Rabbits clean up their own lurking agents properly?” Chen Mu’s eyebrows immediately knit together.
This wasn’t the first time he’d encountered a similar situation, and he had already thrown out dozens of Heavenly Demon Spirit Seeds.
“Each lower courtyard and mountain village is like a sieve, not to mention the Yellow Springs Sect.”
“Hmph!”